You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of joy, sorrow and happiness.

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

He was so damn hard, he could chip the ice from his truck's windshield with his rigid pecker.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.